books.google.com.au - The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a novel that is itself the subject of one of literature’s most enduring mysteries. The story recounts the troubled romance of Rosa Bud and the book’s eponymous character, who later vanishes. Was Drood murdered, and if so by whom? All clues point to John Jasper, Drood’s...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/The_Mystery_of_Edwin_Drood.html?id=mveKQrapAVoC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

The Mystery of Edwin Drood is a novel that is itself the subject of one of literature’s most enduring mysteries. The story recounts the troubled romance of Rosa Bud and the book’s eponymous character, who later vanishes. Was Drood murdered, and if so by whom? All clues point to John Jasper, Drood’s lugubrious uncle, who coveted Rosa. Or did Drood orchestrate his own disappearance? As Charles Dickens died before finishing the book, the ending is intriguingly ambiguous.

In his Introduction, Matthew Pearl illuminates the 150-year-long quest to unravelThe Mystery of Edwin Drood and lends new insight into the novel, the literary milieu of 1870s England, and the private life of Charles Dickens. This Modern Library edition includes new endnotes and a full transcript of “The Trial of John Jasper for the Murder of Edwin Drood,” the 1914 mock court case presided over and argued by the likes of G. K. Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw. Now diehard fans, new readers, and armchair detectives have another opportunity to solve the mystery Dickens took to his grave.

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... sympathy for poor, misunderstood Victorian villains. It is a bit frustrating not to know the ending. What sort of mischief were Dick Datchery and Princess ... Read full review

I love the style of writing from the 19th century. - LibraryThing

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booklove2 - July 21, 2012 - LibraryThing

... off for no ending. But Dickens is always enjoyable. I love the style of writing from the 19th century. I especially loved a description of an old timey food ... Read full review

Dickens loved his surprise twist endings. - LibraryThing

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booklove2 - July 21, 2012 - LibraryThing

... even was a murder, as they never find the body of Drood. Dickens loved his surprise twist endings. Anyone could have been the murderer. Or it could have been ... Read full review

So there are points off for no ending. - LibraryThing

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booklove2 - July 21, 2012 - LibraryThing

... Imagine if the ending to 'Great Expectations' wasn't known. So there are points off for no ending. But Dickens is always enjoyable. I love the style of writing ... Read full review

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User Review - ncgraham - LibraryThing

This is my fifth Dickens novel. Normally I wouldn’t read a final, unfinished work so early in my perusal of an author’s oeuvre, but when I learned that the BBC was going to be airing what sounded like ... Read full review

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User Review - Robina Richardson - Goodreads

Enjoyed the book, but was disappointed that it was an unfinished work. Left me to speculate on the ending.Read full review

About the author (2009)

\Charles Dickens is the author of such timeless classics as Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities,andGreat Expectations.

Matthew Pearl is the New York Times bestselling author of The Dante Club, The Poe Shadow, and TheLast Dickens. He is the editor of the Modern Library editions of Dante’s Inferno (translated by Henry Wordsworth Longfellow) and Edgar Allan Poe’s The Murders in the Rue Morgue: The Dupin Tales.